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Top 25 Companies for Pay and Perks (USA Today)

Chart Your Course

The top items on their wish list are better pay policies, clearer top-down communication, and greater transparency about pay. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology make up the second-largest group with three representatives: Genentech, Amgen and Pfizer. Costco, at No.

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The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About

Harvard Business Review

Education and immigration policy are also notably absent from directors’ main concerns. With such widespread pessimism, we hope that central banks will be ready to coordinate their policies to stabilize and support the world economy. Foreign policy and immigration policy are rarely cited as top worries.

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50 Laboratories of Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

could learn from — is to test policy proposals before rolling them out nationally. When problems surface, the policy can be fine-tuned, modified, and re-tested before it is tried out on a wider scale. policy making. One thing that the Chinese do quite well — and that the U.S. But not in U.S.

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Information Technology's Dangerous Trend in Africa

Harvard Business Review

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. Even the governments have confused technology policy with IT policy. Tech journalism is now IT journalism.

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The Reason Silicon Valley Beat Out Boston for VC Dominance

Harvard Business Review

In her pioneering research on Silicon Valley’s advantage over Route 128 circa 1990, AnnaLee Saxenian identified some of the major differentiators, from cultural factors to state-level policies. These policy differences fostered the emergence of a less loyal, more footloose talent pool in Silicon Valley.

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Companies Can Address Talent Shortages by Partnering with Educators

Harvard Business Review

. “Together, in response to industry demand, we’re creating a dedicated pipeline of skilled biomanufacturing professionals,” said Bruce Van Dyke, chair of Quincy’s Biotechnology and Good Manufacturing Practice program, in a recent interview with us.

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Unglamorous Freelance Manufacturers Could Boost U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

For example, in biotechnology, a field in which the U.S. So what's needed is a policy approach to encouraging the growth of CMOs. A policy focus on CMOs would require a new American mind-set, however. Policy makers need to appreciate the value of keeping incremental and process innovation in the United States. In the U.S.,